Around 5,000 applicants to enter RTVEin the category of informants (journalists) were left this Sunday morning without being able to take the test. opposition because the corporation has failed the exam due to the leaking of some of the questions.
On its website, the corporation has reported that “for reasons of force majeure The Information and Contents exam is postponed scheduled for today, September 29, 2024, with the new summons to the test announced in the coming days. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
It was the USO union that revealed the reason for the suspension: “After detecting a leak in the test questions, we have decided all the unions, together with the management of the RTVE Corporation, suspend the opposition process for the informant category that was going to take place this morning”.
The applicants found out through social networks about the suspension and the reasons for it, and It wasn’t until 10:57 (three minutes before the supposed start of the test) when they received an email from the corporation announcing the suspension of the exam.
Shortly after, a couple of agents from the National Police appeared at the UCM Psychology campus in Somosaguas and later addressed the opponents: “We have no idea what happened, they tell us that it was a leak, there will be no exam here today and they can go home peacefully.”
Given the demands that those responsible for the exam showed their facesthe agents insisted that the people present at the test “have nothing to do with Radio Televisión Española.”
One of the candidates, Alexandra Smith, explained that everything was ready for the start of the test when they learned of the suspension: “The exams were on the tablewe have seen how the boxes arrived.”
As rumored this morning, the leak of the questions occurred on Saturday night in a WhatsApp groupto which a union had access.
In addition to the surprise, the suspension of the test has deeply angered the majority of the opponents, many of whom come from different parts of Spain and have had to make an outlay in terms of transportation, hotel, etc. The USO union talks about “unnecessary load of stress” and claim to share “their frustration.”
The 5,000 applicants for a journalist position at RTVE were divided into three campuses of the Complutense University of Madrid and many of them have refused to leave the facilities until someone in charge of the entity explained to them in person the circumstances of the cancellation of the test. . Some were even organizing a protest in Torrespaña.
